"The topic of the summer academies will be how disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, & humanities have deliberated about how to invest their always scarce resources of time, talent, & money in projects that will shape research in an always uncertain future." #HPS #HistSTM #histsci

Erika Milam@emilam.bsky.social · 5h ago

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

My friend from high school, Shannon Reed, has written yet another book! Thus giving me yet another chance to brag that I was her prom date. "My Girls," the latest installment in the My Prom Date Wrote a Book trilogy, will ship in February 2027!

don't threaten me with a good time, scammer

=============== WED AUG 5 10:30AM MAINE MED CENTER =============== Western Prom near 22 Bramhall St, Portland, Maine MAINE MED NURSES DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELEASE of COLLEAGUE FROM ICE DETENTION. Details below. #AbolishICE #ICEoutOfMaine

Maine Medical Center nurses demand immediate release of their colleague from ICE detention

Nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine are staging an emergency protest Wednesday, Aug. 5 to demand the immediate release of an RN colleague who is being detained by ICE despite the fact th...

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Stevens' pollster, who had more reason to whisper happy talk in her ear than anyone, reportedly told her she was going to get blown out. I don't think pollsters are incompetent. Far from it. I just think we're in an unpollable era, maybe forever. Anyway, off to mainline some polls!

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 20h ago

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

Everybody do the Elk Charge dance

This is Madison Cawthorn's old seat. Remember him? I dunno what the people of North Carolina's 11th congressional district did to get this curse put upon them, but it's time to repent.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · yesterday

This just might be the most psychotic act of sexual harassment I’ve ever seen. Not the worst per se, or most menacing but in terms of sheer insanity it’s really up there.

relatable

Whoa. Major milestone in nuclear history today! (Please keep your dogs inside.)

Simon Varwell@simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate. (Especially those in Allendale, California.) short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 3d ago

American Christianity in one social media post.

holy shit 😬

TheDevinTeam@thedevteam.itch.io · 6d ago

Real ones have known Ken Jennings is a shithead for a while.

There's a guy with a blog I love to hate who fancies himself quite the connoisseur of music (and every other goddamn thing). He's pissed that Lauryn Hill, famous for showing up hours late to gigs, showed up 37 minutes late to the Newport Folk Festival. And, by all accounts, brought the house down.

Lauryn Hill Stuns Fans with Rare Performance at Newport Folk Festival After Years Away

She rarely makes surprise appearances like this—and fans are losing their minds over the footage.

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If anyone's looking for gift ideas for me I'd also love $5-10 billion in yen

Reuters@reuters.com · 5d ago

EXCLUSIVE: Bessent's 'to do' list: buy $5-10 billion worth of Japanese yen, Reuters photo shows reut.rs/4w1pLC6

I like my job, but every year when I sign my contract I have this little fantasy where things go south and I take my revenge through contumacious conduct. BOSS: You're the most contumacious person I've ever met! ME: [flicking cigarette away] more contumaciousness where that came from

Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: "I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent" (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Socialism? In Fightin' Bob La Follette's state?!

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 6d ago

Remember Chris Cillizza? He’s sweating.

I cackled several times. His face while saying some of it was just the most hilariously incongruous shit I've seen in ages. 15/10, will watch a dozen more times lmao

𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 7d ago

can't stop laughing😭

Fun fact: local commanders at US bases in the Middle East are already rationing their supplies of interceptors by ordering that certain drones or missiles be allowed to hit. That's a good strategy, to let the (hopefully) harmless ones through… but it's a disaster that you're at that point.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d ago

If those are accurate numbers… Holy shit. That’s bad.

me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding

You know, we can make fun of the (adult) kids these days for their nugget-heavy eating habits, but I'll say this for us: we are never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to fall for a quasi-patriotic appeal to eat our Variety Meats ever again.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"

Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.

This is nonsense, it can't possibly really work 95% of the time, and I say that as someone who's tried to make exactly this kind of micro-terrarium work. That said, if I had an iPhone, I'd already have bought one. It's delightful nonsense.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.

A terrarium iPhone case that houses actual growing plants and moss. [designboom.com]

Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

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I had many experiences as a minor child before the dawn of the internet, but I would characterize nothing about them as care-free, including the good ones. Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP, not the concept of "fraught," and I'd expect Hochul (who is old enough to be my mother) to know that.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last wk.

This is just???? Who the fuck are you to say how children should be raised, Kathy?

When I took my road test in Pennsylvania, the "rules of the road" instructional booklet had the roadkill rules on the INSIDE FRONT COVER, because it's more important than stop signs. (You can claim it, but if it's a buck it counts against your bag limit.)

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last wk.

Only Illinois residents can claim a roadkill deer, according to state law. The only stipulation is the resident claiming the deer cannot be delinquent on child support payments.

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please